The Smart SketchUp Plugin For Scattering

Find out what makes Skatter awesome in this video!

Skatter is Your Best Friend

From small carpets in a living room to large scale forests, Skatter is designed to help you achieve the final look fast and easy.

RENDER UNLIMITED AMOUNTS OF OBJECTS

Through its “Render only” feature, Skatter sends all the scattering information directly to the render engines, bypassing Sketchup. That way, you keep a lightweight and responsive file while still being able to render huge amounts of objects.

FULLY PARAMETRIC

Go back and edit your work at any time. Every option and parameter is saved, so there’s no need to delete everything and restart from scratch.

CONTENT LIBRARY

Fine Control Over the Scattering Process

Thanks to dozens of options and parameters. Yet keep things simple with the adaptive UI. See the list of features below.

Your Skatter Production Can be Rendered by All Render Engines!

The “Render only” feature is currently supported by Thea, V-Ray, Corona, Twilight, Indigo, Raylectron and Kerkythea. You can still use Skatter with any other render engine (Octane, Maxwell, Shaderlight, Podium, LightUp, etc), by actually generating the objects in the model.

Skatter is a Smart Thoughtful Solution

The brainchild of Architect and 3D Artist Thomas Hauchecorne and brought to you by 3D Artist and ArchVIZ Blogger Ronen Bekerman, Skatter is made to fit your needs!

HOSTS

Scatter objects on surfaces, along curves, or pick individual points in the model.

AREAS

Define precise areas where you want to distribute or not the scattered objects, by using SketchUp curves and objects, or by painting them yourself.

CAMERA CLIPPING

Generate only the objects visible by the camera, or discard the ones too far away.

DISTRIBUTION

Distribute objects randomly, on a grid, or a mix of the two, on vertices, faces, etc. Use altitude, slope, and collisions parameters to fine tune the distribution. Use probabilities when scattering multiple types of objects, to define precise mixtures.

RANDOMNESS

Randomize the objects placement by using random translation, rotation, scale, and mirroring.

FALLOFFS

To avoid hard cutoffs, you can use falloff parameters with areas, altitude, slope, camera clipping, to define smooth transitions.

WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY

Populating vast landscapes is not only possible with Skatter, it’s enjoyable too.

Pete ‘Solo’ StoppelIllustrator

Skatter is the kind of plugin that once you have tried it you can’t understand how you ever managed without it.

Jan ‘Pixero’ SandströmIllustrator

I use Skatter because it is the de-facto solution for particles systems in SketchUp. Skatter is a huge time saver for SketchUp visualisations. Skatter helps you to get shit done. Scatter, Brained.

Rich O Brien3D artist, SketchUcation’s Managing Director

While Skatter allows you to optimize time and resources spent on such demanding scenes, it also offers great control and it’s fun to use, helping you unleash your creativity.

João Q. LimaArchitect

Skatter with “Render Only” is amazing. Just hitting render with a seemingly empty SketchUp scene and watching a full detailed forest appear out of nowhere feels like magic.

Jan ‘Pixero’ SandströmArchitect

While Trimble failed to convince me to upgrade my Sketchup due to a lack of useful new features, Skatter is definitely a reason to do so.

Tim TeichertIllustrator

Chances are that you’ll like using Skatter, not only because it offers options that could integrate with your renderer of choice’s workflow, or because it’s flexible and easy to use, but because it is fun.

Julian "juju" SmithArchitect

A parametric solution for all my skattering needs, it´s great to have control and randomness at the same time when placing vegetation.

To use Skatter with all the other render engines, you’ll need to uncheck “Render only”. If you want your favourite render engine to support Skatter, please go ahead an submit this request with the engine’s developers. It has to happen on their side as Skatter has no control over this.

Can I use Skatter for other purposes than rendering?

Yes! Absolutely. If you don’t activate the “Render only” feature, Skatter will generate regular components. So you can use it for whatever you want.

On how many computers can I use one license?

For each license of Skatter, you can install it on no more than two computers, provided that it is used on only one computer at a time.